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You Down With MSG?

Thanks to my friend Chris at Future 3 (www.livejournal.com/users/klotho), I’ve recently been re-educated in the taste-enhancing greatness that is Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Well, perhaps not so much of a re-education as a re-evaluation. I remember walking past various Chinese restaurants back home and them often proudly displaying a sign that had MSG circled with that …

December 29, 2005
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Caught The Shutter Bug

Right, so I did it. I finally got myself a new camera. After a year and a half of putting up with a damn blotch on the inside of my old digital camera’s lens, and in turn having to photoshop it out in every photo I take, I’ve stepped up and bought myself a rather …

December 28, 2005
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X-mastations Met

Mounting Christmas Expecations have been something that consistantly foil even the best intended Christmas celebrations year after year for me. I think the problem is I’ve just learned to induce such a build up in the days leading to the big day, that when it actually arrives, happens and departs I’m left with an “is …

December 26, 2005
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Paranoia Strikes Deep

Student Gets Federal Visit For Requesting Mao Honestly, I’m not going to waste too much blog space talking about the often-said, and sadly obvious fact that America is FAR too concerned about things. I mean, for a country that spawned the biggest peace/love movement in recent history, one has to wonder how the whole place …

December 20, 2005
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Mind The Flying Kimchi

Well, the last week or so has been a scramble to get the minimal Christmas shopping I need to do done, as well as balancing my over time hours and investigating possible job options for the future… and this week seems like it will be just as busy. Everyone say “Yay” to the holidays. My …

December 19, 2005
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Feed The Masses

Right, so I’ve added an RSS (Rich Site Summary) link to my site (over on the left side, at the bottom – replacing the graphic that reminded me I failed at NaNoWriMo). If you don’t know much about RSS then click on the darnn links in this post and sort it out man. It’s quite …

December 15, 2005
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Believe In The Power Of Santa!

No Chistmas For You I bought myself an early Christmas present the other day, an MP3 player. That’s right folks, I own a cell phone AND an MP3 player – technically an MP4 player. Man, have I embraced the 21st Century or what? Though it’s no iPod or Lycra, it’s not bad. It only holds …

December 12, 2005
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The Day I Tor Through The Wall

So, I’ve discovered a rather brilliant new program thanks to Chris, a fellow teacher over a Future 3. The program? Tor. Actually Tor is two programs: Tor and Privoxy. The two programs work together to basically confuse all the computers out there that take note of where you’re going and what you’re doing. This is …

December 10, 2005
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You May Say I’m A Dreamer…

John Lennon, 1940 – 1980 Dear John Dear John, it’s been how many years since I let my hair grow long? And so many years since my first Beatles’ song, It just doesn’t seem that it could be that long, But now you’re gone – dear John. Dear John, we all know you didn’t deserve …

December 8, 2005
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Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful

In a break from tradition (at least from what I hear about Dalian weather habits), it snowed pretty solidly all weekend. It’s fantastic, and has really jump-started my Christmas fever. I don’t like to admit it, but I really do love Christmas. Don’t get me wrong, the commercialism and all that crap sucks ass, but …

December 5, 2005
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Holy 1984 Batman!

Right, if you do nothing else with your day, visit Google Earth and prepare to be blown away. And for those of you that have seen this already and want to comment on how cool you are … ah, hell, go ahead – it’s true. I mean, my god, I was able to show my …

December 2, 2005
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“Culture of Blame”

“Provinces blame the federal government. Municipalities blame the provinces. Provinces blame other provinces. The Conservatives blame the Liberals. The Martin Liberals blame the Chretien Liberals and the NDP blame everybody.” – Jim Harris, Green Party of Canada Leader God that’s true. I guess the only reason the people of Canada don’t look at the Green …

December 1, 2005
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